Thrips are tiny insects that are particularly hard to see, but they can cause serious damage to your plants. These small pests reproduce through eggs that can remain dormant for weeks on unplanted ...

In a perfect world, a rose garden would have no pests. This is wishful thinking and is never going to happen. So, the second-best option in a rose garden is that the pests be easy to spot. “Plain view ...

Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...

A pest with a voracious appetite may have met its match in a predatory mite being evaluated as a biocontrol agent. A pest with a voracious appetite may have met its match in a predatory mite being ...

Got a houseplant query? Our expert is here to help. This week, how to deal with tiny, sap-sucking pests What’s the problem? I’ve tried everything to get rid of these pests but they just keep coming ...

Insects are numerous on area landscape plants after a long, productive summer. To check for problem spots walk around weekly and look for insect activity. Check both old and new growth, plant stems ...

Heavy rains have brought much-needed moisture, and with the rains come the insects. In my garden, potatoes have white flies.

Every year, small insects infest my gardenia blooms and destroy them. I want to bring some in and display them but with these insects I can’t. Do you have a solution? These insects, thrips, are a ...

It was bad enough that our region’s cold, wet spring affected our tomato plants’ ability to produce a normal crop. When an unusual insect problem arose on them as well, I began taking it personally.

IN an earlier paper 1 attention was directed to the fact that thrips have remarkably few effective natural enemies. Syrphidae were mentioned as predators; but the thrips-feeding habit seems to be very ...